Platno Lake (South Shetland Islands)

Platno Lake
Platno Lake
езеро Платното (Bulgarian)
	Platno Lake Location in Antarctica
Location	Nelson Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
Type	Natural lake
Basin countries	Antarctica
Max. length	410 m (1345.1 feet)
Max. width	170 m (557.7 feet)
Surface area	4.2 ha (10.4 acres)

Platno Lake (Bulgarian: езеро Платното, romanized: ezero Platnoto, IPA: ['ɛzɛro plɐt'nɔto]) is the 410 m long in southwest–northeast direction and 170 m wide lake on Long Beach, Nelson Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It has a surface area of 4.2 ha and is separated from the waters of Bransfield Strait by a 40 to 110 m wide strip of land. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.^[1]

The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a sail ('platno' in Bulgarian).

Location

Platno Lake is situated at the base of Ross Point and centred at 62°20′51″S 59°06′48″W / 62.34750°S 59.11333°W / -62.34750; -59.11333,^[2] which is 3.56 km southeast of The Toe and 3.4 km west-northwest of Vidaurre Point, the south extremity of the island. British mapping of the area in 1968.

Livingston Island to King George Island. Scale 1:200000. Admiralty Nautical Chart 1776. Taunton: UK Hydrographic Office, 1968
South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3373. DOS 610 - W 62 58. Tolworth, UK, 1968
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

^ L. Ivanov. General Geography and History of Livingston Island. In: Bulgarian Antarctic Research: A Synthesis. Eds. C. Pimpirev and N. Chipev. Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2015. pp. 17–28
^ Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

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